Improved clothes-drier



N-PETERS, PHOTOLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. G

JOHN NAPOLEON VALLEY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVED CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 103,257, dated May 17, 1870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN NAPOLEON VAL- LEY, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne, and

` in the State of Michigan, have invented certain I new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Horse; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification. u

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a clotheshorse, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the saine, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in Which- Figure l is a perspective view of the entire clothes-horse; andFig. 2 is a horizontal section, showing the manner of hin ging the horizontal bars to the upright posts. Fig. 3 shows a modification of the said mode of hinging the barsi` to the posts.

A A represent a series of upright posts, connected by horizontal bars B B.

The bars B B are firmly secured to one post,

. and hinged to the next in the following manner A groove or crease is made around the post; A, and an eye-screw, a, placed in the same,`said screw being screwed into the end of the bar or stretcher B, and a ferrule, b, placed upon the end of the bar. By thus hinging the horizontal bars to the upright posts, the clothes-horse can be turned in every direction, or rather each section of the clothes-horse can be turned in any direction desired.

In place of the eye-screws a. a, the bars or stretchers B B may be hinged by means of a staple, e, passing around the post in the groove or crease, the ends of said staple tting in grooves on the bar B and bent inward into said bar. The ferrule b is then slipped over to hold the staple. This mode of hinging is shown in Fig. 3.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A clothes-horse formed in sections of the posts A A and bars B B, the sections being hinged together by means of the eye-screws a a, moving in grooves on the posts and screwed to the ends of the bars, provided with bands b, substantially in the manner herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th day of April, 1870.

JOHN NAPOLEON VALLEY.

Witnesses:

En. P. TRACY, WILLIAM BARNES.

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